Financial History Key to Understanding Political Future (w/ Grant Williams and Russel Napier)

Financial historian and independent research strategist Russell Napier thinks investors and financial professionals need a greater understanding of financial history, so much so that he built a ‘Library of Mistakes’ in Edinburgh, dedicated to the subject. Without understanding financial history, it’s impossible to forecast government intentions, which he says, with political paralysis in Europe, could result in financial repression, including capital controls, as central banking just isn’t working.

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Financial History Key to Understanding Political Future (w/ Grant Williams and Russel Napier)

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[SueFerreira]

Time to interview Russell Napier again and update!!
Great exercise in history.

[mikestanmore]

Five years on and this begins to sound like Nostradamus.

[angylisa]

Poor people think of what they can buy with their money, Rich people thinks of what they can invest in with their money 💰💰💰

[yourplumbingpal]

Such a great interview and interviewee, found that really informative, especially the whole inflation deflation play book, thank you.

[Ruth-wuvf]

I'd love Grant to get an update from Russell. He thinks independently and has foresight.

[lafgreg]

This interview could have been today, Napier was right about gouvernement interventions, now it's unprecedent

[Hrubicundus]

9 minutes in: "President Clinton will pay more attention to Secretary of the Treasury Krugman than to the central bank" 😂

[Boudica]

This is an excellent discussion. However, an interview from 2016 is so outdated. It might as well be from the last century. The guest's reference to President Clinton (Hillary) was pretty funny under the circumstances.

[brandongreen]

Great stuff. Politics is a dirt nasty game people just don't care to study.

[jmbpaz]

And yet the EU and the euro are still there

[First_Principals]

We need a new interview with Russell Napier.

[austinquinton]

Ok I am in, how to I become a member of Real Vision? this is golden info.

[gaymummu]

Why do people always confuse the EU with Europe? seems deliberate

[DominikNal]

Seems like a lot of complaints about the original airing of this. It's a conversation about finnancial history. It's by definition going to look at the past, just because it doesn't cover the last 4-5 years doesn't make it irrelevant. You learn from the past.

[johntheaccountant]

This is put on YouTube and it is 5 years old.
80% of it are totally irrelevant to what has happened.

[dmfoneill]

Please provide an author to the book "The Laws of Finance" - thanks!

[ronniewhite]

Investing in crypto now should be in every wise individuals list, in some months time you'll be ecstatic with the decision you made today.

[BR-hiyt]

In 2024 now and we got some inflation at long last but the debt is still going up. So what now?

[jamesmartin]

I think some of our new trading partner's Mexico, Canada, South America may be forced to hold done govt debt going forward also

[ericanderson]

Im not a fan of Crypto. To me its not investing. Buying something because you expect more people will buy it in the future hence raising its price means nothing to me. Besides I do that now with LEGOs and I get to play with them.

Also, Napier is spot on with Financial Repression. That is exactly what's happening. Since Inflation seems unattainable, we are doomed to print to infinity. What will it mean when the CBs holds a Quadrillion dollars?